Subscribers interested in the critical electronic edition of parts of
Wolfram von Eschenbach's 'Parzival' may also be interested to know that a
first instalment of an electronic line-by-line database of secondary
literature for the whole poem will be published later this year by Max
Niemeyer Verlag, Tuebingen (http://www.niemeyer.de/): David N. Yeandle:
Stellenbibliographie zum "Parzival" Wolframs von Eschenbach fuer die
Jahrgaenge 1984-1996, ISBN 3-484-97009-X, 536 ): "Line-by-line
Bibliographical Database of Wolfram von Eschenbachs 'Parzival' for the
Years 1984-1996". The computerized line-by-line bibliographical database,
which is a novel concept in literary bibliography, allows the user to
obtain a speedy and thorough picture of the scholarly literature for the
period 1984-1996 for individual lines of text of 'Parzival', the details
being sorted for each line according to topics and dates. It is also
possible to search for themes, authors, works, and much more, and then
pursue the line-by-line details in the secondary literature. Thus it is
effectively an electronic commentary without full text, but with extensive
contents descriptors. Work is currently in hand to extend the scope of the
database both forwards and backwards in time.

[In this corrected version, made after the coffee has had its improving
effects, allow me to point out the methodological importance for humanities
computing of what Dr Yeandle has done: used the metamorphic capabilities of
our medium to transform one genre (the bibliography) into another (the
commentary), or at least to bridge the two. This is why his
Stellenbibliographie is a favourite example of mine. It also serves to make
the point that what to a computer scientist may be viewed as trivial is to
a computing humanist quite significant. --WM]